Timers Work...

Forum: The Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide
Re: Timers don't work?? (Joshua Liew)
Keywords: timer
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 01:25:06 GMT
From: Balaji Srinivasan <balaji@hegel.ittc.ukans.edu>

The mistake with your code is that you need to update INTERVAL every time you add_timer. The expires field in timer_list is an absolute time not a relative time. for example: irq() {     timer.expires = jiffies + INTERVAL;     add_timer(&timer); }